Former Grand Prix winner David Coulthard takes a spin on the top of the brand new One Thousand Museum in Miami to help promote F1’s first Fan Festival in America

What you’re looking at here is 13-time Formula 1 Grand Prix winner and former Red Bull Racing (RBR) driver David Coulthard pulling doughnuts 700 ft above the ground just days ahead of the 2018 United States Grand Prix.

That was, it turned out, a race in which current RBR driver Max Verstappen scythed through the field to finish 2nd having started 18th.

We’re not sure if there’s any correlation between them, but to be on the safe side, Red Bull might want to start looking for the tallest building they can find in Mexico City next weekend…

Anyway, back to Miami. The stunt was carried out using Red Bull’s RB7 from 2011, a Renault V8-engined scalpel that secured Red Bull’s second consecutive Drivers’ and Constructors’ championships. Across an impressive season, erstwhile champion Sebastian Vettel and teammate Mark Webber secured 12 victories from 19 starts, and a further 15 podium finishes. Across the entire 2011 F1 campaign, the RB7 missed the top three only once.

Not the kind of museum piece, then, you’d want slipping off the edge of a 62-storey skyscraper onto Miami’s South Beach. Fortunately, as well as being a seasoned F1 veteran, Coulthard also has previous experience of this stunt: back in 2013, the Scot, again in the RB7, pulled donuts on the helipad of the preposterously opulent Burj Al Arab in Dubai, UAE.

As well as demonstrating the size of DC’s…courage, the showcase atop the brand new One Thousand Museum in Miami – designed, just FYI, by the late Zara Hadid – was actually inspired to help promote the 2018 F1 Fan Festival, which took place during the course of the United States GP weekend in Bayfront Park, Miami.

Developed to attract new and younger fans to Formula 1, the F1 Festival was the fifth of its kind since the inaugural event in London last year. Miami was also the fifth different international city to host the festival, following London, Shanghai in April, Marseille in June and Milan in August this year.

It even featured two-time F1 champion Emerson Fittipaldi creaming the aluminum nuts off the McLaren M23 that took him to his second title in 1974.